Word: balboa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come out with your arms raised in victory, like Rocky Balboa. You bounce the ball three times and, as your heart clenches, you shoot -- and you know instantly that you've blown it. The ball goes left and clangs cruelly off the rim. Your wife has tears in her eyes. She'll always remember that she turned 42 the day her husband bungled the million-dollar bucket...
Americans have a love affair with people who keep trying and trying. A larger-than-life statue of Rocky Balboa stands in front of Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium. The hard-luck Joads of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath are among the most beloved families of American fiction. In some parts of the country William Jennings Bryant, despite his three failed attempts for the White House, is still a populist hero...
Anyone who expected yesterday's women's tennis match between Harvard and Brown to be something like Rocky Balboa versus Drago the Russian came away disappointed...
...more like Rocky Balboa versus Bullwinkle the Moose...
...consider the first four letters in the title of Gladiator a "Rocky" wanna-be whose characters fail to provoke emotions as could Mr. Balboa or Apollo Creed, I ponder whether I am GLAD that I viewed this trash? No, I categorically declare. GLADness would have required obtaining a lobotomy along with my buttered popcorn upon entering the theater...